What is Your Experience with Open Innovation Firms? What has been your experience (positive or negative) using Open Innovation firms (i.e.: Innocentive, Nine Sigma, Yet2.com; others) to communicate...
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October 20, 2015
Bad Dog, No Biscuit: The Challenges of Doing New Things in an Established Organization Valerie Bowe, Engineering Director, Strategy and Innovation, Unisys Corporation Brittney Burchett, Software...
Does your organization pay professional society dues for individuals? Typically members of a technical community participate in exterior memberships in professional societies -- ie AICHE, American...
Depending on particular needs of stakeholders or of decisions to be taken, different categories and factors should be examined. In addition, time periods (unit of analysis) should be adjusted for different industries, technologies and types of R&D.
October 19, 2015
Pragmatic Analytics for Managing Project Risks: ROR Report Out Robert T. Williams, Program Manager, Platform Innovation, Boeing Martha J. Collins, PhD, Technology Director for Global Innovation,...
November 18, 2013
IRI Hosts Leading Minds in Innovation at Future Summit in San Jose, CA ARLINGTON, VA (November 18, 2013) – The Industrial Research Institute (IRI), an association that brings together companies and...
April 28, 2015
Big Data: Digitalization in R&D Building on the success of IRI’s first strategic research platform, the IRI2038 Futures Study, we have launched our next ground-breaking study: ‘The Next Industry...
May 24, 2016
Orlando, FL (May 24, 2016) —That today’s world is experiencing rapid, and accelerating, change is a frequently cited fact by innovation thought leaders and R&D executives. Where is all this...
August 19, 2010
The Industrial Research Institute, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, awards $500,000 to North Carolina State University for Lignin Research IRI program identifies pre-competitive...
2008 - 2011 Deliverables Report out, Member Summit 2011 Research-on-Research Reports , RTM, Volume 53, Issue 6, 2010 RTM Article Description While there is much information regarding leadership in a...
2011 - 2012 Deliverables Presentation , 2012 Annual Meeting Description The Managing Global R&D Networks working group sought to identify and communicate the best practices and experiences...
October 16, 2007
National Award Honors Washington, Virginia and Ohio Research and Development Executives Lincolnshire, IL - For their paper in Industrial Research Institute's (IRI) award winning bi-monthly journal...
November 01, 2013
As part of its 75th anniversary celebration, IRI commissioned the IRI2038 initiative, a strategic foresights project asking how events, developments, and emerging trends might shape the art and...
July 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Online collaboration is a powerful tool for boosting idea generation in large corporations. However, management may experience an overload of proposals from employees. To improve front-end...
May 16, 2017
IRI Research Project: Strategic Challenges in R&D Management Research Initiative Previously the IRI completed a study to evaluate how the management of science and technology would change by the...
Networks are member-driven groups based around various functional areas within R&D. Members gather in-person and virtually to benchmark, discuss hot topics, and of course, network! Topics are...